Manager can’t take on role of liaison between board and attorneyQuestion: I have been on my homeowners association board for two years. All communication between the board and the attorney goes through the association’s manager before distribution to the board. I just discovered the manager has been withholding communications the attorney has written to the board.

Legal merger affects community associationsMany of Central Florida’s largest community associations will have a new law firm starting Dec. 1 when Altamonte Springs-based Taylor & Carls merges with Becker & Poliakoff of Fort Lauderdale. About 1,000 community associations, mostly in the four-county Metro Orlando area, will shift from the 32-year-old Taylor & Carls firm to the state’s biggest firm for community-association legal work.

Local condo guru releases new bookWhen it comes to condominium law, attorney Robert Meisner wrote the book – and the law itself. He’s the author of “Condo Living 2” (Momentum Books, 2013), the second-edition guide to buying, selling and operating condos, and he helped draft the 1978 Michigan Condominium Act and its 2001 amendments.

25 years of condo law, and communal fruitThis month, I celebrate 25 years of practicing “condo” law. I would like to say that I have seen it all, but I probably have not done so. After all, I have practiced on the west coast of Florida. I have no idea what Miami would be like, and I do not want to know.

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